Overview
Passion, beauty, and brilliant storytelling are all on display in this six-hour-plus epic from Italian director Franco Zeffirelli. Robert Powell is superb in the title role, and with the overwhelming success of this TV movie throughout the world, has perhaps become what Jesus looks like in many people's minds. The story begins with the arrangements of the wedding between Joseph and Mary, and chronicles the nativity, the encounter with John the Baptist (a ferocious Michael York) and everything up to the crucifixion and resurrection.
Director and cast
- Franco Zeffirelli Director
- Robert Powell as Jesus
- Anne Bancroft as Maria Magdalena
- Ernest Borgnine as Der Zenturio
- Claudia Cardinale as Die Ehebrecherin
- James Farentino as Simon Petrus
- James Earl Jones as Balthasar
- Stacy Keach as Barabbas
- Tony Lo Bianco as Quintilius
- James Mason as Joseph von Arimathäa
- Ian McShane as Judas Ischarioth
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